Operating Manual
Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions
Individual Occupational Requirements for
Statistics Series, GS-1530
The text below is extracted verbatim from
Section IV-B of the Operating Manual for Qualification Standards
for General Schedule Positions (p.IV-B-208), but contains minor edits
to conform to web-page requirements.
Use these individual occupational requirements in conjunction with
the "Group Coverage Qualification Standard for
Professional and Scientific Positions."
- Degree: that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics,
provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in
one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine, education, or
engineering; or in the social sciences including demography, history, economics, social
welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health
sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, etc. Credit toward
meeting statistical course requirements should be given for courses in which 50 percent of
the course content appears to be statistical methods, e.g., courses that included studies
in research methods in psychology or economics such as tests and measurements or business
cycles, or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data such as tabulating
methods or electronic data processing.
OR
- Combination of education and experience--courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate
experience or additional education. The experience should have included a full range of
professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing, and
analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of
central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation,
analysis of variance, and tests of significance.